How are multiple column = value pairs delimited in the SET clause of an UPDATE statement? 1. With commas (SET price = 0, status = 'I') 2. With parentheses (SET (price = 0) (status = 'I')) 3. With double-pipes (SET price = 0 || status = 'I') 4. With square-brackets (SET [price = 0] [status = 'I'] 5. With single or multiple spaces (SET price = 0 status = 'I')

Which one of the following join types will always create a Cartesian Product? 1. CROSS JOIN 2. LEFT OUTER JOIN 3. RIGHT OUTER JOIN 4. FULL OUTER JOIN 5. INNER JOIN

Which one of the following pairs of aggregate functions do you use with character fields? 1. COUNT(field) and MAX(field) 2. AVG(field) and COUNT(field) 3. MIN(field) and SUM(field) 4. AVG(field) and MAX(field) 5. COUNT(field) and SUM(field)

HCL,

Which clause of an UPDATE statement allows you to affect only certain rows of a table? 1. The WHERE clause 2. The SET clause 3. The ROWS AFFECTED clause 4. The ORDER BY clause

HCL,

If you want a column to be part of the result set, after which SQL keyword does it belong? 1. SELECT 2. FROM 3. WHERE 4. GROUP BY 5. HAVING

HCL, TCS,

What is the difference between UNIQUE CONSTRAINT and PRIMARY KEY? 1. There is no difference. 2. A PRIMARY KEY cannot be declared on multiple columns. 3. A UNIQUE CONSTRAINT cannot be declared on multiple columns. 4. A table can have multiple PRIMARY KEYS but only one UNIQUE CONSTRAINT. 5. A table can have multiple UNIQUE CONSTRAINTs but only one PRIMARY KEY.

Satyam,

What is the main difference between a UNION statement and a UNION ALL statement? 1. A UNION statement eliminates duplicate rows; a UNION ALL statement includes duplicate rows. 2. A UNION statement can be used to combine any number of queries; a UNION ALL statement can be used to combine a maximum of two queries. 3. A UNION statement can only combine queries that have parallel fields in the SELECT list; a UNION ALL statement can combine queries with differing SELECT list structures. 4. A UNION statement cannot be used with aggregate functions; a UNION ALL statement can be used with aggregate functions. 5. There is no difference between the two statements; they are interchangeable.

Saman Bank, Sonata,

1 SELECT a.field1, b.field2, c.field3, d.field4 2 FROM atable a, atable b, ctable c, dtable d 3 ? 4 ORDER BY 1 What is the minimum number of joins that must be specified on line 3 in the sample code above to properly link the tables? Notice that the table "atable" is aliased twice: once as "a" and once as "b." 1. One join 2. Two joins 3. Three joins 4. Four joins 5. Five joins

Sonata,

SELECT flavor, SUM (ice_cream_sales) FROM sales_detail GROUP BY flavor ORDER BY 2 DESC If the "sales_detail" table contains ten records with different values in the flavor column (two "vanilla," three "chocolate," four "strawberry," and one NULL), how many rows are returned by the sample code above? 1. 0 rows 2. 1 row 3. 3 rows 4. 4 rows 5. 10 rows

Sonata,

Which one of the following is a reason that an INSERT statement might cause an error instead of executing correctly? 1. The INSERT statement was attempting to insert a record into a view that was created from more than one table. 2. The INSERT statement was attempting to insert a record using a combination of constants and values from an existing table. 3. The INSERT statement was attempting to insert a record with a non-NULL value into a table that has that column defined as NULL. 4. The INSERT statement was attempting to insert a record into a table by selecting a record from that same table. 5. The INSERT statement was attempting to insert a record into a view rather than a table.

Sonata,

SELECT emp_num, years, SUM(salary) FROM sales UNION ALL SELECT emp_id, SUM(takehomepay) FROM marketing What error is present in the sample code above? 1. Queries being combined with the UNION ALL statement are not allowed to have SELECT lists with a different number of expressions. 2. You are not allowed to use aggregate functions within two queries joined by a UNION ALL statement. 3. The UNION ALL statement incorrectly combines the "years" result from the first query with the "SUM (takehomepay)" result from the second query. 4. Unless the UNION ALL statement is replaced with a UNION statement, the queries will return duplicates. 5. The "emp_id" column from the second query must be renamed (or aliased) as "emp_num" so that it corresponds to the column name from the first query. Otherwise, the queries will not execute.

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